announced its placement of the 24-year-old on the reserve\/retired list<\/a> Monday afternoon.<\/p>\nEvans was a sixth-round draft pick to the Rams in 2023, when he appeared in 10 games, mostly on special teams, and rushed nine times for 19 yards.<\/p>\n
Zach Evans (38) participates in a drill at Jets minicamp in June. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
The 5-foot-11, 211-pound running back joined the Jets\u2019 practice squad in December 2024 before later signing a reserve\/futures contract with New York in January, keeping him on the team\u2019s 90-man roster over the offseason and into training camp.<\/p>\n
Although his pro career didn\u2019t necessarily pan out, Evans showed promise as a top recruit out of North Shore High School in Texas.<\/p>\n
According to 247Sports\u2019 composite rankings, Evans was a five-star recruit, the No. 2 running back in the country and the top running back in the star-studded Lone Star State.<\/p>\n
He took his talents to TCU after high school, where he played in 15 games across two seasons, rushing for 1,063 yards and nine touchdowns on over seven yards per carry.<\/p>\n
Zach Evans (38) runs the ball while fellow running back Braelon Allen works a drill with him using a resistance band. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Zach Evans runs the ball in a drill with Breece Hall. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Evans transferred to Ole Miss for his junior year, where he tallied 1,055 yards from scrimmage with 10 total touchdowns across 12 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then declared for the 2023 NFL Draft and was selected 215th overall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At Jets training camp, Evans was working alongside a crowded running back room that boasts the three-headed monster of Breece Hall, Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis, as well as undrafted former Michigan star Donovan Edwards and Kene Nwangwu, who had a 99-yard kick return touchdown in one of his two appearances for the Jets last season.<\/p>\n
Upon Evans\u2019 retirement, the Jets announced the signing of running back Lawrance Toafili<\/a>, an undrafted free agent out of Florida State.<\/p>\nWith Evans\u2019 placement on the reserve\/retired list, the Jets retain his rights until his contract expires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets running back Zach Evans has called it quits just days into training camp. While there seemingly aren\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5702,349,99],"class_list":["post-45925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}